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Aww, that's a cute story. I love signing with our 22 month old as well. I can't believe more people don't do it! It certainly helps having a conversation like the one you mentioned above. Our son loves police and fire truck sirens and always stops what he is doing and puts his hand to his ear when he hears one. When we can't hear it any more he usually signs "more", which is funny because obviously we don't control the siren. And I think he knows that now, too, because he smiles as he signs more now. Anyway one day we actually saw the police car go by and I pointed it out to him telling him verbally that it was a police car. He signed "please" which made us realize that "please" does sound kind of like "police" and so we were able to clarify that these were two different words. And then of course we had to look up the sign for police so we would know for next time.